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McMinnville gallery showcases young at art
Conventional wisdom — to the extent that there still is such a thing in our highly mediated, hyper-compartmentalized, and socially fractured world — is that arts in the public schools have taken a...
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Vision 2020: Yaelle Amir
After twelve years of curating and writing in New York, Yaelle Amir arrived in Portland in March of 2015 to be the curator of exhibitions and public programs at Newspace Center for Photography. The...
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Art review: Beneath the surface seductions
January is named for Janus, the double-faced Roman god who was able to look simultaneously at the past and the future. Given this etymological foundation, it seems appropriate that two stand-out...
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Vision 2020: Kristin Shauck
Kristin Shauck teaches drawing, painting, design, watercolor, and art history at Clatsop Community College, where she also oversees the Royal Nebeker Art Gallery. Originally from Texas, Shauck grew up...
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‘Nothing at all of this is fixed’
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRIDERIKE HEUER Was glänzt, ist für den Augenblick geboren, Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren. That which glitters is born for the moment;The genuine remains intact for...
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Unwound and unbound
By RACHEL ROSENFIELD LAFO In the 1970s and 1980s, fiber arts—weaving, textiles, tapestry, embroidery, knitting, crocheting, sewing, quilting, etc.—along with other “craft” media such as ceramics,...
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The brain of the beholder
I saw David Eckard’s exhibit, Placards and Placeholders, at the North View Gallery on PCC’s Sylvania Campus just before and after a scheduled artist Q & A with sizable crowd of PCC students and...
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‘Au Naturel’: Art laid bare
The first time Drea Frost walked into a college art class, it was not as an artist but as a model for a nude-drawing class. She did it for the money, but wound up with so much more. Now, Frost is part...
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Critical remakes but no art
Installation view of Being Present, courtesy of Portland Art Museum What is the point of an art exhibition that contains no actual artworks? In the case of Being Present (on view at the Portland Art...
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Our place in the fabric of the world
* The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see. –James Baldwin The Creative Process (1962) (from The...
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VizArts Monthly: Art worth braving the rain to see
Now that January is finally over and we’ve all recovered from the holidays and reacclimated ourselves to the rain, it’s time to get back out into the world! There is a lot going on this month from...
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Southern Rites at the Jewish Museum
“What do I want? Why do I want it? And how do I get it?” – Stacey Abrams, in a TED talk shortly after she lost her bid to be elected governor of Georgia in the 2018 midterm elections. * AS SHOULD BE...
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Signs and Portents: The urge for color
It’s gray and dreary out; political news is bleak. Even the twinkle lights on bare branches that look so cheerful when they go up in December lose their sparkle by February. It’s the post-twinkle...
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At Albertina Kerr, art of ebullience
There is an Outside spread Without & an outside spread WithinBeyond the Outline of Identity both ways, which meet in One:An orbed Void of doubt, despair, hunger & thirst & sorrow. –...
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Upcycled and avant garde at Everywhere Space
By SEBASTIAN ZINN I am holding a pair of cargo pants made from flexible orange nylon. Their surface is symmetrically festooned with several smartly constructed, triangular fanny-pack...
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The Artists Series 3: Visual Artists
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY K.B. DIXON This is the third installment of portraits in The Artist Series. The first two focused on Oregon writers. This one focuses on visual artists—the gifted painters and...
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VizArts Monthly: Fill March with art and sunshine
Flowers are blooming, the sun is shining, and things are happening! There have been some real shakeups in Portland’s art world lately, from reorganization at RACC to the uncertain future of PSU’s...
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First Thursday: Solitude and connection
As I biked downtown to visit a few galleries for First Thursday, I wondered if the news of pandemic would keep local audiences at home. I was happy to see that I wasn’t the only one willing to throw...
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A quilt show takes on ecocide, consumerism, and capitalism
One does not instinctively think of politics and protest when a quilt show appears in a local gallery, which is why the latest exhibit at the Chehalem Cultural Center in Newberg may catch you off...
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The symphony animated and illuminated
Tucked away in a Northwest Portland apartment is a tiny doppelgänger of the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Made of foam core and photographic prints, the model faithfully captures every facet of the...
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